In these 20 essays Albert O. Hirschman examines his own ideas, and economic development. They also bring perspectives on the material in his 12 previous books and essays. In the essays that open this collection, Hirschman reappraises points he made in such books as "Exit", "Voice and Loyalty", "The Strategy of Economic Development" and "The Rhetoric of Reaction". Subsequent essays re-explore the themes of Latin American development and market society that have occupied him throughout his career. Hirschman also forays into the likely impact, negative or otherwise, of the Eastern European revolutions of 1989 on the Third World, the on-and-off connections between political and economic progress, and the role of conflict in enhancing community spirit in a liberal democracy. Hirschman presents autobiographical fragments that reflect his deep involvement in some of the important events of this century. He recollects his flight from Hitler's Germany in 1933, his studies in Paris, his work with the antifascist underground in Italy in 1937-38, and his role in helping Varian Fry in Marseilles, in 1940, to rescue political and intellectual refugees from Vichy, France.

阿爾伯特·赫希曼（Albert O. Hirschman，1915—2012）

美國著名德裔思想傢，經濟學傢，20世紀最偉大的知識分子之一。早年曾參加西班牙內戰，投身於法國抵抗法西斯的運動和對猶太難民的營救行動，“二戰”後先後任教於耶魯大學、哥倫比亞大學、哈佛大學和普林 斯頓高等研究院，其學術研究涉及經濟學、政治學和思想史等領域，著述包括《經濟發展戰略》《退齣、呼籲與忠誠：對企業、組織和國傢衰退的迴應》《欲望與利益：資本主義走嚮勝利前的政治爭論》《轉變參與：私人利益與公共行動的新描述》《反動的修辭：保守主義的三個命題》等。

譯者簡介

本科畢業於南京大學，現就職於浙江大學跨學科社會科學研究中心與《新政治經濟學評論》編輯部。譯著另有《現代經濟學主要流派》《經濟學理論與認知科學》等。